Their Greatest Song: The Who

Some dinner discussion from Saturday night. What was (is) the Who’s greatest recording? I’ll have the answer for you tomorrow, but in the meantime, you tell me.

UPDATE: The friend I was talking with Saturday suggested I should phrase the question differently. He said I should ask something like what do I think is THE WHO’S most under-rated song? OR, that I might say, “If you wanted to show someone what made Keith Moon great, which song would you pick?”

As a clue to what I’m going to say Monday, my answer to all three questions (best, under-rated and Moon) would be the same.

By the way, when you get an album, how can you tell that the band thinks that a particular song is particularly good? Think about it.

By the way — I haven’t heard all the Who bandmembers solo stuff, not even close. Barely heard any of it, come to think of it.

But of what I’ve heard, it’s hard to imagine anything better than this one: